Intel is bringing a chip to every computing category at Computex. The last time it could do that, it was the company everyone was trying to catch.

Intel is taking Panther Lake handhelds, a 52-core Nova Lake desktop preview, and 288-core Clearwater Forest servers to Computex 2026, all built on the 18A process that underpins its foundry pitch to Apple, Amazon, and Musk’s Terafab.

Intel will arrive at Computex 2026 in Taipei on 2 June with something it has not had in a decade: a product in every computing category built on a single manufacturing story. Panther Lake, the laptop chip launched at CES in January, is expanding to handhelds with Arc G3 and Arc G3 Extreme processors designed for the gaming handheld market. Nova Lake, a 52-core desktop chip with a new socket and new CPU architecture, will be previewed for a second-half launch. Clearwater Forest, a 288-core server processor that shipped at MWC in March, rounds out the Xeon lineup for data centres and cloud inference. All of them are built on or designed ...